UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level
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GEOGRAPHY
Paper 1
October/November 2006
1 hour 45 minutes
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Section A
Answer one question from this section.
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(a) Study Fig. 1, a scatter graph which shows the birth and death rates of seven countries in
2004.
40
40
Botswana
30
30
Death
Rate
(per 1000
population)
Mozambique
20
20
Tanzania
Ghana
10
Sudan
USA
10
Morocco
0
10
20
30
Birth Rate
(per 1000 population)
40
50
Fig. 1
(i)
Name the country with a birth rate of 36 per 1000 and a death rate of 24 per 1000.
[1]
(ii)
Calculate the natural population growth rate of Tanzania. You must show your working.
[2]
(iii)
Name the country shown on Fig. 1 which experienced:
A. the highest rate of natural population growth,
B. natural population decline.
(iv)
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[3]
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(b) Study Fig. 2 which shows how birth and death rates in Mauritius (an LEDC in the Indian
Ocean) changed during the 20th century.
Birth and Death rates
per 1000 per year
60
50
40
Birth rate
30
20
Death rate
10
0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Years
Fig. 2
(i)
Suggest possible reasons for the decline in the birth rate in Mauritius from the 1960s. [5]
(ii)
Describe how natural growth rates in Mauritius have changed during the 20th century.
Support your answer with dates and figures.
[5]
(c) What policies can be used by governments to influence rates of natural population growth?
You should refer to at least one example which you have studied.
[7]
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(a) Study Fig. 3A which shows a rural area in eastern England, along with Figs 3B and 3C which
show the settlements of Saxby All Saints and Winteringham.
The Humber Estuary
N
30
Winteringham
60
60
South
Ferriby
Saxby
All
Saints
Horkstow
Winterton
90
LME
CHO
NEW RIVER AN
HOLME
ER
OLD RIV
Saxby All Saints
Bonby
C
AN
Appleby
60
30
Fig. 3B
Worlaby
Broughton
BRIGG
Fig. 3A
Key:
0
1
2
km
Main roads
Rural settlements
Town
River
Drainage channels
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Winteringham
Contours (metres)
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Fig. 3C
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(i)
Winteringham is a nucleated settlement. What is meant by nucleated settlement?
[1]
(ii)
Suggest two reasons why Saxby All Saints is a linear settlement.
[2]
(iii)
Describe the distribution of rural settlements in the area shown by Fig. 3A.
[3]
(iv)
Suggest reasons for the distribution of the settlements which you have described in (iii).
[4]
(b) Study Fig. 4, a map showing the population of market towns in part of eastern England, along
with their spheres of influence.
Key:
Horncastle
Lincoln
Sleaford
Grantham
250 000
100 000
50 000
5000
Alford
Population
Skegness
NORTH
SEA
Spilsby
Boston
Spalding Holbeach
Bourne
= Boundary
of sphere of
influence
N
King’s
Lynn
Wisbech
Stamford
0
20km
Peterborough
Fig. 4
(i)
Give three different examples of the types of services in the towns shown on Fig. 4 to
which people from surrounding rural settlements might travel.
[3]
(ii)
Using evidence from Fig. 4, describe and suggest reasons for the differences in the size
and shape of the spheres of influence of Holbeach and King’s Lynn.
[5]
(c) Many settlements have grown over the years into large urban areas. These include towns and
cities with main functions such as:
– ports,
– industrial towns,
– tourist resorts,
– administrative centres.
– capital cities.
For a named example of a large settlement which you have studied, identify its main function
and explain the reasons for its growth.
[7]
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Section B
Answer one question from this section.
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(a) Study Fig. 5, which is a block diagram of an upland area in a temperate region.
X
bare rock
bare rock
screes
screes
Fig. 5
(i)
State one piece of evidence that weathering has taken place in the area shown by
Fig. 5.
[1]
(ii)
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
(iii)
Name and describe three processes by which the river may erode its channel in the area
shown by Fig. 5.
[3]
[2]
(b) Study Photograph A (Insert) which was taken in the area marked X on Fig. 5.
(i)
Describe the main features of the landscape shown in the photograph.
[3]
(ii)
Describe the main process of weathering operating in the area shown in the photograph.
You may use a labelled diagram in your answer.
[4]
(iii)
Explain why weathering processes are more rapid in humid tropical regions than in
temperate regions like those shown in the photograph.
[5]
(c) There is a plan to build a dam across the valley shown in Fig. 5, to create a reservoir as part
of a multi-purpose scheme.
Explain fully why people will have different opinions about whether this scheme should go
ahead.
[7]
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(a) Study Fig. 6A, a climate graph for Manaus in the Amazon tropical rainforest, and Fig. 6B a
sketch of the natural vegetation.
30
300
25
250
20
200
15
150
10
100
5
50
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Jul
Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Key:
temperature °C
rainfall in mm
Fig. 6A
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Temperature (°C)
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Fig. 6B
(i)
What is the annual range of temperature of Manaus?
[1]
(ii)
Estimate the total annual amount of rainfall in Manaus. You must show your working. [2]
(iii)
Using evidence from Fig. 6B only, describe three characteristics of the natural
vegetation in areas of tropical rainforest.
[3]
(iv)
Explain the relationship between the natural vegetation characteristics and the climate of
the tropical rainforest.
[4]
(b) Study Fig. 7 (Insert), information produced by McDonald’s, a fast food restaurant chain.
(i)
Identify three pieces of evidence from Fig. 7 which suggest that McDonald’s is aware of
the importance of using the natural environment in a sustainable way.
[3]
(ii)
Explain why many people are concerned that ‘rainforest destruction threatens the
well-being of the environment ’.
[5]
(c) Explain why parts of some continents, such as South America and Africa, experience a
tropical rainforest climate whilst other parts experience a tropical desert climate.
[7]
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Section C
Answer one question from this section.
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(a) Study Fig. 8, which shows the employment structure of selected countries.
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100 %
CANADA
GERMANY
MEDCs
AUSTRALIA
JAPAN
CUBA
INDIA
CHINA
LEDCs
KENYA
MALI
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100 %
Key:
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Fig. 8
(i)
What percentage of the population of Mali work in the primary sector?
(ii)
Explain why many people in LEDCs such as Kenya and Mali work in the primary sector.
[3]
(iii)
In Cuba the main employment used to be on plantations, growing crops like sugar and
tobacco. Now more people are employed in the tourist industry. In which employment
sector would the following Cuban people work:
(iv)
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A.
a worker on a tobacco plantation,
B.
a waitress in a hotel,
C.
a worker in a factory making cigars?
[1]
[2]
How do you think the employment structure of Cuba is likely to change in the future?
Give reasons for your answer.
[4]
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(b) Study Fig. 9, which shows the percentage value of exports from Taiwan in 1960 and 2000.
Taiwan is a newly industrialised country (NIC).
1960
0
10
90
80
20
70
30
Key:
Farm products
40
60
50
Raw materials
Electronics
2000
Textiles / clothes /
footwear
Machinery
0
10
90
Toys / sports
goods
80
20
70
30
40
60
50
Fig. 9
(i)
Describe the change in the export of primary and secondary products between 1960 and
2000. Support your answer with examples and figures.
[3]
(ii)
Explain why high technology industries, such as electronics, are important in NICs such
as Taiwan. You may refer to other examples.
[5]
(c) How have the lives of people in NICs changed as a result of economic growth? You may refer
to examples which you have studied.
[7]
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(a) Study Figs 10A and 10B. Fig. 10A shows changes in average global temperatures and Fig.
10B shows how the greenhouse effect works.
Average temperature at the Earth’s surface
since 1866
Predicted
temperature
14.6
Temperature (°C)
14.4
14.2
14.0
13.8
13.6
13.4
13.2
1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020
Fig. 10A
SUN
Short-wave
radiation from
the sun
Gases such as:
Carbon dioxide
CFC gases
methane
Long-wave
radiation from
the Earth
Incoming
solar
radiation
Fig. 10B
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(i)
According to the prediction in Fig. 10A, what will be the average global temperature in
2010?
[1]
(ii)
Use Fig. 10A to describe the changes in average global temperatures between 1960 and
2000.
[2]
(iii)
Use Fig. 10B to help explain how the greenhouse effect works.
(iv)
Explain how human activities may increase the greenhouse effect to produce higher
global temperatures.
[4]
[3]
(b) Study Fig. 11, a newspaper article written in 2004 about the likely impacts of global warming.
Tuvaluʼs tides revive global warming
debate
It is predicted that the Pacific
atoll nation of Tuvalu will
disappear under the waves today,
and become the first victim of
rising global sea levels.
High tides will sweep onto
Tuvalu, just 26 km2 of land
scattered over nine atolls, none
of it more than 4.5m above sea
level.
“We are not quite sure what
will happen but we expect most
of the areas will be flooded
by the sea for an hour or so,”
Hilia Vavae, of the Tuvalu
Meteorological Office said.
Tuvalu has long said it is
at risk from a rise in sea levels
caused by global warming.
During negotiations on the
Kyoto Convention on global
warming a decade ago, the
prime minister warned “the
worldʼs first victims of climate
change” would be the 11,500
Tuvaluans.
Prime Minister Saufatu
Sopoʼaga says his Government
is thinking of suing Australia
and the United States for their
carbon emissions.
Ms Vavae said most homes
in Funafuti, which consists of
30 islets populated by 4000
people, would be flooded, along
with her office and perhaps the
airport.
Fig. 11
(i)
Explain why Tuvalu is at risk from global warming.
[3]
(ii)
Explain why people in Tuvalu may have different attitudes towards global warming from
people living in Australia and the United States.
[5]
(c) Human activities often pose a threat to the natural environment.
These include economic activities such as:
– tourism,
– agriculture,
– manufacturing industry,
– mining.
Name an area which you have studied where the environment is at risk from human activities.
Describe the human activities causing the risk and explain how they have affected the natural
environment of your chosen area.
[7]
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Question 6
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